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Title
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[Letter from Edra Bogle to Adrian Cyr, October 17, 1981]
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Identifier
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MSS380_letter_19811017
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Type
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Letters
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Manuscripts
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Date
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10/17/1981
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Description
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Letter from Edra Bogle to Adrian Cyr regarding the recent TGTF election results and business that will need to be covered at the upcoming meeting. The letter appears to have been written for, and CCd to, the entire board as it is typed but Adrian's name is handwritten in.
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Originally formed as the Texas Gay Task Force, the TGLTF was the first statewide gay/lesbian organization in Texas. Organized in 1973 for the purpose of planning annual conferences (until 1990), the TGLTF served as the parent organization for the Lesbian/Gay Democrats of Texas and the Lesbian/Gay Rights Advocates.
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Subject
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Texas Gay / Lesbian Task Force
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Bogle, Edra
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Barnett, Douglas;
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Barnhart, George
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Stevens, Michael
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Palmer, Robert
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Format
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2 pgs.
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Language
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en
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Rights
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Materials may not be used without permission. For more information, contact us at (940) 898-3751 or womenshistory@twu.edu.
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Is Part Of
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Texas Gay / Lesbian Task Force Records, 1970s-1991.
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Accrual Method
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Gift
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Provenance
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Bogle, Edra
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extracted text
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[redacted]
October 17, 1981
Dear Adrian,
I’m sorry to be slow on informing the Board members about the election results, but I got bogged down in other things. In the only race, Arian Cyr won. There were no write-in candidates for unfilled jobs. Therefore, the Board will at first consist of Adrian and Jennie, Jere and Eden, and John. Maybe someone from another region will come to the meeting wishing a seat.
I am enclosing a copy of the Bylaws (that’s who the dictionary spaces it) which I found in the material I received in January and will have more copies at the meeting. These don’t have the amendments from last year’s business meeting about election procedures and I was told we also did away with the People’s Assembly. Does anyone have a copy of that material? I’ll see what Doug Barnett, who was the secretary in 1980, has–but maybe not before the meeting. Perhaps someone in Houston could check in with Steve Caldwell, who sent out the ballots, to see if he has any copies of just what they said. Obviously they all got returned to him.
It looks to me from the way the Bylaws are written that we could seat anyone in a vacant position regardless of geography. Obviously that isn’t the intent but it is the wording–the qualifications seem only to apply to nominees.
I am hoping to send out another newsletter right after the Board meeting, before the postal rates go up on November 1. Though Jere will be gone, he’s been addressing the envelopes. He also keeps up the membership list, and I hope to have the figures for the meeting, but in spite of maybe 20 or more renewals, along with the election ($350) I fear that our membership is going to total less than 100 who have renewed since July 26, 1980.
Because this is a time tight schedule, I would appreciate very much if the people frm [sic] Houston and El Paso could bring to the meeting anything that they consider of general interest, all written up, ready to go into that newsletter. I have a number of things more or less ready for it, but believe that this kind of local news can bae [sic] very interesting to others. Someone in Denton is scanning TWT, but local ideas of what is important may be more useful.
We didn’t say who should set up the agenda for the meeting, and so this isn’t an official one obviously, but we do need something to go by. The items I can think of include:
A. Officers and Committees: Reports
1. Minutes of the last Board meeting–we didn’t keep minutes, all being exhausted. Shall we consider what was in the newsletter as minutes and approve or amend those?
2. Report on finances and on membership. (Bogle)
3. Committee report on conference (Willingter?)
4. Other?
B. Old business
1. Report of Committee on Relations with LGRA and LGDT (Sutton and Barnhart?)
2. Reorganization (specifying plans to work on this?) Sutton?
3. Newsletter decisions. (Contents, process, personnel, financing, publicity) Bogle?
4. Other
C. New business
1. Sales tax committee. (I’ll bring along the letters that Kathy didn’t answer. We really need someone to work on this who has at least been in business.)
2. General membership drive
3. Other fund-raising needs and ideas
4. Other
D. Committee of the Whole: Reorganization
I’ll bring along my button box in case anyone wants to try selling some, or wants to buy.
John was going to set up the place for the meeting, and I haven’t heard from him yet–tried to call this afternoon but he wasn’t home and I wanted to mail this. I presume he’ll let us know. I’m going to the South Central Modern Language Assn. meeting in Austin as of Thursday so won’t be home after that and don’t know where I’ll be staying, though I hope it’s in the Motel 6–will try for that. We can meet in my room if we have to. However, I hope it will be the Lambda Center at 603 W 12th.
As ever,
Edra (signature)
cc: Board members
George Barnhart
Robert Palmer
Michael Stevens
Doug Barnett
